Show A REGISTRAR REBUKED the utah commission Commissi om on off names the following letter is self tory OFFICE OF THE UTAH commission salt lake city utah oct 29 deputy south precinct DEAR sin alere lias been shown to the commission a notice issued by you as registrar to a person registered as a voter in your precinct to the effect that his right to vote is objected to on the ground that lie is a polygamist and aids and abets polygamy poly eamy if he is at present in polygamy of course the objection should be sustained aiding and abetting polygamy is nut made a cause for disfranchisement hy any law the commission lias knowledge of in this case the party states that he had a plural wife who died some twenty years ago and that he has not lived in polygamy since if this statement be true he comes within the definition of the supreme court upon the subject and is a legal voter if otherwise fied the commission is at loss to know what is meant by alie phrase used in the notice aids and abets polygamy if it is intended by that term to strike from the registration lists alie names of men simply for the reason they are members of the church the commission desires 10 ay iy emphatically thai it cannot le made a party to any such action and it hopes that none of its appointees will lend themselves to such a violation of rho laws of alie land yours G L chairman P S the commission deairas to hear from you on this subject |